The Leader: A charismatic mystic named Antônio Conselheiro (The Counselor) wandered the impoverished region preaching spiritual salvation.
ellauri501.html on line 637: 2. Antônio Conselheiro (The Erasure of Social Reform)The Real Person: Antônio Conselheiro was a mystic, but he was also a practical social organizer. He built churches, cemeteries, and dams, and spoke out against the republic's lack of support for the newly freed, starving Afro-Brazilian slaves.Llosa's Falsification: Llosa hyper-focuses on Conselheiro’s apocalyptic religious rhetoric, turning him into a deeply detached, fanatical doomsday prophet. By scrubbing away the Counselor’s grounded social justice efforts and overemphasizing his religious mania, Llosa makes the entire movement look like a suicidal cult of religious extremists rather than a legitimate social rebellion.
ellauri501.html on line 660: "The Jehovah or Yahweh of the Old Testament seems to me to be a sadistic, bloodthirsty, genocidal villain. I cannot understand how He can be identified with the gentle Christ of the New Testament. Even through a mystic Trinity."
ellauri507.html on line 150: Instead of a broken psyche, his "soledad shit" came from two major life influences: His grandmother was a mystic who spoke to ghosts and treated supernatural omens with casual, deadpan certainty. Additionally, as a lame excuse, he argued that Latin American history was full of tragic loops, violence, and isolation because the rest of the world refused to understand it on its own terms. The other peoples just did not like it there and were awfully rude to the locals.
ellauri507.html on line 332: Many classic Russian thinkers were driven primarily by Orthodox Christian theology, spiritual mysticism, or philosophical fatalism rather than political ideologies. Trying to force them into modern political boxes misses what they were actually writing about.
xxx/ellauri044.html on line 1207: Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, and later as Osho (/ˈoʊʃoʊ/), was an Indian godman, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. His parents, Babulal and Saraswati Jain, who were Taranpanthi Jains, let him live with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old. By Rajneesh's own account, this was a major influence on his development because his grandmother gave him the utmost freedom, leaving him carefree without an imposed education or restrictions. In the 1960s he travelled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, arguing that India was not ready for socialism and that socialism, communism, and anarchism could evolve only when capitalism had reached its maturity. He caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru". Kun Intia kävi kuumaxi se siirsi bisnisit Oregoniin. Lopulta se potkittiin pois sieltäkin ja palautettiin Intiaan. Aiivan läpi paska äijä.
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 172: Furthermore, although a Jewish philosopher, Shestov saw in the resurrection of Christ this victory over necessity. He described the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus as a transfiguring spectacle by which it is demonstrated that the purpose of life is not "mystical" surrender to the "absolute", but ascetical struggle:
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 268: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ˈbɛnjəmɪn/; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn];[5] 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An electric tinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Shulem. He was also related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin, Günther Anders.
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 274: Waltulla oli siionistijuutalaisia kavereita mm Martin Buber (der Jude-lehden toimittaja). Se puuhasteli myös Stefan Georgen kanssa (miinuspisteitä). In ‘The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism’ (1920), Benjamin presents interlinked concepts of language, sacred text, a projected reworking of Kant’s limited concept of experience, and a new approach to criticism and Romanticism as a tracing of the absolute in early Romantic writing (paljon miinuspisteitä). Benjamin argued for an ‘immanent criticism’ which would engage in some ways quite mystically with a text’s internal structures and divine traces (roppakaupalla miinusta).
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 587: In Bulgaria, you nod your head when you mean no and shake it for yes, and they revere an old blind lady named Vanga who mystic-bulgarian-peasant-baba-2363896">predicts the future. Cool!
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 794: Brod’s memoirs spoke about Kafka’s gentle serenity, describing their relationship almost as if they were lovers. He also recalled the mystical experience of both men reading Plato’s Protagoras in Greek, and Flaubert’s Sentimental Education in French, like a collision of souls. While there is no evidence of any homosexual feeling between Kafka and Brod, their intimate relationship appeared to go beyond typical camaraderie from two straight men of their era.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 206: In Judaism, similar figures arbitrated between earthly realities and spiritual realms since before the establishment of Talmudic Judaism in the 3rd century. However, it was only in the 16th century that these figures were called Baalei Shem. It looks like a Jewish reflex of the cotemporaneous revivalist movements among the protestants. Herbal folk remedies, amulets, contemporary medical cures as well as magical and mystical solutions were used in accordance with traditional Kabbalistic teachings as well as adapted Lurianic guidelines in the Middle Ages.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 210: Baal Shem Tov was the stage name of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, a Polish rabbi and mystical healer known as the . His teachings imbued the esoteric usage of practical Kabbalah of Baalei Shem into a spiritual movement, Hasidic Judaism. While a few other people received the title of Baal Shem among Eastern and Central European Ashkenazi Jewry, the designation is most well known in reference to the founder of Hasidic Judaism. Baal Shem Tov, born in the 17th century Kingdom of Poland, started public life as a traditional Baal Shem, but introduced new interpretations of mystical thought and practice that eventually became the core teachings of Hasidism. In his time, he was given the title of Baal Shem Tov, and later, by followers of Hasidism, referred to by the acronym BeShiT. He disavowed traditional Jewish practice and theology by encouraging mixing with non-Jews and asserting the sacredness of everyday corporal existence.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 216: From the 1730s, Baal Shem Tov (BeShiT) headed an elite chirurgic mystical circle, similar to other secluded Kabbalistic circles such as the contemporary Klaus (Close) in Brody. Unlike past mystical circles, they innovated with the use of their psychic heavenly intercession abilities to work on behalf of the common Jewish populace. From the legendary hagiography of the BeShiT as one who bridged elite mysticism with deep social concern, and from his leading disciples, Hasidism rapidly grew into a populist revival movement with the funny hats. That's the point, there are only so many members of the elite, while the hoi polloi, though poorer, count in zillions. Want to have a large following, lower the entrance fee.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 218: With its emphasis on Divine Omnipresence, Hasidic philosophy sought to unify all aspects of spiritual and material life, to reveal their inner Divinity. Dveikut was therefore achieved not through ascetic practices that "broke" the material, but by sublimating materialism into Divine worship. Nonetheless, privately, when nobody was looking, many Hasidic Rebbes engaged in ascetic practices, in Hasidic thought for mystical reasons of bringing merit to the generation, rather than formerly as methods of personal elevation.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 224: This section is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Traditional Jewish philosophical, ethical and mystical thought describes the two fundamental emotions in spiritual devotion, of "love of God" and "fear of God". Hasidic thought gives these standard notions its own interpretations.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 231: The grand masters of Mussun Mussun would counter that such a path has the danger of escapism, as understanding oneself is the basis of mature consciousness. In some Hasidic schools, this pitfall of mystical escapism with more external forms of emotional enthusiasm are avoided, but that kills a lot of the fun.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 233: Across all Hasidism the continual mystical joy and vittul-humility "between man and God", is ideally reflected likewise in belfies to help another person "between man and man". In Hasidism, mesiras nefesh means devoted sacrifice of God for another person. Lubavitch and Breslav have become the two schools involved in the Baal Teshuva movement where talented young men and women devote themselves to going on Shlichus (outings), rather than the traditional and commendable devotion to Torah study and personal spiritual advancement.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 237: Hasidism, initially, rejected the focus on personal reward, or ultimately also the ideal of material self-advancement, as too self-centred. Before the magnificent awareness of Divine majesty, through the mystical path, the automatic response is sincerity and a desire to nullify oneself (nollata polla) in the Divine presence. It is more worthwhile to reject even refined levels of self-centred spiritual advancement from advanced Yeshiva study to help another male person in their spiritual and even physical needs. This attitude has also spread in recent times to non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jewish Orthodoxy, as part of the spiritual campaign of the Baal Teshuvah movement.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 239: The Lithuanian rabbis (like Itchele's mom's folks) feared that Hasidism demoted the traditional importance on Torah study, from its pre-eminent status in Jewish life. Some Hasidic interpretations saw mystical prayer as the highest activity, but their practitioners thought that through this, all their Jewish study and worship would become easier. By the mid-19th Century, the schism between the two interpretations of Eastern European Judaism had mostly healed, as Hasidism revealed its dedication to bookwormship, and the Lithuanian World saw advantages in the Hasidic shared fun.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 241: Hasidic anecdotes illustrate its mystical idea of rejecting notions of reward and punishment in favour of vittul (nullification) of the ego and devoted self-sacrifice. In one account:
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 243: The first leader of Lubavitch hasids, Schneur Zalman of Liadi kept in his desk some of his unpublished Hasidic mystical writings. A fire broke out that destroyed them. Afterwards, he asked if anyone had secretly copied them. His close associates replied that no one had, since he had written atop their pages the warning of "Joka tämän varastaa sitä piru rakastaa". Schneur replied "what has become of Hasidic self-sacrifice for the sake of Heaven?"
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 248: Hasidism adopts the different Kabbalistic forms of love, and the mystical fear of dogs. The classic Hasidic love manual the Tanya by aforementioned Schneur Zalman of Liadi describes many types of love and fear. It is a systematically structured guide to daily Hasidic life. In all Hasidism, as in Kabbalah, love and fear are awakened by studying hot and scary texts.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 254: Likewise a story is told of how in moments of mystical rapture, Schneur Zalman of Liadi would be seen rolling on the floor, exclaiming to his housekeeper: "God, I don't want your Garden of Eden (Heavenly World), I don't want your World-to-Come (Messianic days), I just want You!".
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 257: The teachers of Hasidism point out that fear of God is different from natural forms of worldly fear, which are uncomfortable experiences, and when experienced, at the time remove other emotions. The trepidation felt when perceiving the mystical greatness of God carries its own delight and vittul-nullification, rather like a roller coaster or feeling up a maiden, and can be felt together with longing and delight of mystical love.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 267: Baal Shem Tov's mysticism taught that the sincere common folk could be closer to God than a scholar who has self-pride in his accomplishments.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 268: Rahvaanomaiset mutta devekutit hasidit tarrautuvat Jehovaan kuin liima, kuin kärpäspaperi, kuin Kapteeni Capun laastari. In perhaps the most characteristic Hasidic story, the Baal Shem Tov's conduct instructed his new mystical teaching and boundless delight in the unlettered deveikut of the simple folk:
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 394: Drawing on the breadth of Midrashic, Talmudic and Aggadic literature (including literature that is no longer extant), as well as his knowledge of Hebrew grammar and halakhah, Rashi clarifies the "simple" meaning of the text so that a bright child of five could understand it. At the same time, his commentary forms the foundation for some of the most profound legal analysis and mystical discourses that came after it. Scholars debate why Rashi chose a particular Midrash to illustrate a point, or why he used certain words and phrases and not others. Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi wrote that "Rashi's commentary on Torah is the 'wine of Torah'. It opens the heart and uncovers one's essential love and fear of Cod.
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 491: Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 – 29 August 1990) was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70 year career, he gave thousands of lectures, including two at Carnegie Hall, and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). Manly ei näyttänyt järin miehekkäältä, pikemminkin niljakkaalta ilkimyxeltä.
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 495: The younger Hall is said to have never known his father. In 1919, Hall moved from Canada to Los Angeles, California, with his maternal grandmother to reunite with his birth mother, who was living in Santa Monica, and was almost immediately drawn to the arcane world of mysticism, esoteric philosophies, and their underlying principles. Hall delved deeply into "teachings of lost and hidden traditions, the golden verses of Hindu gods, Greek philosophers and Christian mystics, and the spiritual treasures waiting to be found within one's own soul."
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 542: This subject being new to me, I have imagined that if it be so to you also, you may receive the same satisfaction in seeing, which I have had in forming the analysis of it: & I believe you will think with me that if Wishaupt had written here, where no secrecy is necessary in our endeavors to render men wise & virtuous, he would not have thought of any secret machinery for that purpose. As Godwin, if he had written in Germany, might probably also have thought secrecy & mysticism prudent. I will say nothing to you on the late revolution of France, which is painfully interesting. Perhaps when we know more of the circumstances which gave rise to it, & the direction it will take, Buonaparte, its chief organ, may stand in a better light than at present.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 616: Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 - why did he change Edward to Anton? Mystery!) was an American author, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson helped publicize Discordianism through his writings and interviews.
xxx/ellauri169.html on line 201: The church's theology is a syncretistic belief system, including elements of Buddhism, Christianity, esoteric mysticism and alchemy, with a belief in angels and elementals (or spirits of nature). It centers on communications received from Ascended Masters through the Holy Spirit. Many of the Ascended Masters, such as Sanat Kumara, Maitreya, Djwal Khul, El Morya, Kuthumi, Paul the Venetian, Serapis Bey, the Master Hilarion, the Master Jesus and Saint Germain, have their roots in Theosophy and the writings of Madame Blavatsky, C.W. Leadbeater, and Alice A. Bailey. Others, such as Buddha, Confucius, Lanto and Lady Master Nada, were identified as Ascended Masters in the "I AM" Activity or the Bridge to Freedom. Some, such as Lady Master Lotus and Lanello, are Ascended Masters who were first identified as such by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. All in all, she identified more than 200 Ascended Masters that were not identified as Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in the original teachings of Theosophy.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 117: Pig RoastFucking a woman from behind while she is sucking on another man's tummystick.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 126: Tummysticks Two guys lie down facing each other and each simultaneously grinds his penis against the belly of another person.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 105: Rilke lived on the brink of poverty for much of his life, dependent on the good graces of aristocratic and haute-bourgeois patrons in the twilight of the Hapsburg Empire. His shaky situation, much as he complained of it, suited his temperament as well as did the black clothes he liked to parade in during his dandyish younger days in Prague. Like the great German mystics, Rilke was a confirmed solitary. Thus he sought to form emotional bonds with people more ardently than do those who take their desire to be with others for granted. Wandering from person to person and from place to place like a pilgrim, he found that patrons offered him, among more practical things, a potential shrine of emotional fulfillment.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 379: Groddeck believed that all feelings are ambivalent, affection is always mixed with animosity. Groddeck was deeply interested in Christian mysticism. He regarded psychoanalysis as identical with Jesus' teachings. Groddeck analyzed Christian symbols with psychoanalytic methods. If you came for massage, he gave you therapy. If you came for therapy, he gave you massage.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 134: a poet, a dreamer, a mystic of truths;
xxx/ellauri200.html on line 79: For bonus points, they may chant "ohm", a real life Hindu and Buddhist mantra. It's usual too to keep the hands in a mystic gesture, called mudra (usually the chin mudra, with the index fingers touching the thumbs, or alternatively shunya mudra, with the middle fingers instead).
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 352: Although God was out of the picture, a spiritual hunger remained. For a time, when he was friends for a brief stint with an elderly Gershom Scholem, he was intrigued by mysticism, hopeful it might offer him something the Jewish God did not. He often said he was appalled by the very notion of Yahweh, whom he described as an “uncanny, dangerous, altogether outrageous God,” who seemed to take a perverse pleasure in appearing when he was least needed and disappearing when he was needed most.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 393: "Faustus and Helen" was part of a larger artistic struggle to meet modernity with something more than despair. Crane identified T. S. Eliot with that kind of despair, and while he acknowledged the greatness of The Waste Land, he also said it was "so damned dead", an impasse, and characterized by a refusal to see "certain spiritual events and possibilities" Crane´s self-appointed work would be to bring those spiritual events and possibilities to poetic life, and so create "a mystical synthesis of America". But he FAILED!
xxx/ellauri237.html on line 227: Totinen kristillisyys perustuu keskiajan mystiikan edustajien kirjoituksiin, joita Arndt muokkasi luterilaisen ortodoksian katsomusten mukaisiksi, saavuttaen melkoista synergiaa. Näiden joukossa on muun muassa Theologia deutsch (suom. Kirja täydellisestä elämästä), jonka uuden painoksen Arndt toimitti. Totisen kristillisyyden kolme ensimmäistä kirjaa käsittelee sielun kehitystä Jumalan tuntemiseen. Siinä kuvastuvat mystiikan kolme vaihetta: puhdistautuminen (purgatio), valaistuminen (illuminatio) ja yhdistyminen Jumalaan (unio mystica). Neljännessä kirjassa Arndt kehittelee luonnon teologiaa, jonka lähtökohtia ovat uusplatonismi ja Paracelsuksen ajattelu.
xxx/ellauri237.html on line 264: Porthaniassa oli naisvahtimestari nimeltä Wasenius. Mystiikan kolme vaihetta: puhdistautuminen (purgatio), valaistuminen (illuminatio) ja yhdistyminen Jumalaan (unio mystica) symboloivat Marquetan illanviettoja rakkaiden mieliopettajien seurassa. Ensin pestään kädet, sitten sytytetään kynttilät ja lopuxi tulee mystillinen yhdyntä ilman siitintä. Kynttilöitä on syytä varata ylimääräisiä.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 587: Two years later they moved from the East Hollywood area, where he had lived for most of his life, to the harborside community of San Pedro, the southernmost district of Los Angeles. Beighle followed him and they lived together intermittently over the next two years. He eventually "agreed to" marry her by Manly Palmer Hall, a Canadian-born author, mystic, and spiritual teacher, in 1985. Beighle is referred to as "Sara Heinämaa" in Bukowski's novels Women and Hollywood.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 586: The 18th- and 19th-century mystic William Blake, in his intricately engraved illuminated books, refused to view the crucifixion of Jesus as a simple bodily death, and, rather, saw in this event a kenosis, a self-emptying of God.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 620: Altizer combined Kierkegaard and Mircea Eliade to concoct a mystical rather than ethical language for solving the problem of the death of God, or, as he puts it, in mapping out the way from the profane to the sacred. Which makes a rather rough reading, admits William Hughes Hamilton III (March 9, 1924 – February 28, 2012) who was a prominent theologian and proponent of the Death of God movement.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 549: “After his fake execution for a murder he didn’t commit, ex-cop Remo Williams is forced to work for America’s secret crime-fighting agency CURE, while being trained by the world’s greatest assassin, the aged, ageless, cranky, mercenary, mystical Chiun, Master of Sinanju.”
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 904: San Juan de la Cruz, jonka maallinen nimi oli Juan de Yepes Álvarez ja jonka ensimmäinen tunniste oli Juan de Santo Matía ( Fontiveros , 24. kesäkuuta 1542 - Úbeda , 14. joulukuuta 1591), hän oli Espanjan renessanssin uskonnollinen ja mystinen runoilija. Hän oli Karmelinvuoren Neitsyt Marian ritarikunnan uudistaja ja Karmeliitin ritarikunnan perustaja yhdessä Pyhän Teresan kanssa. Paavi Pius XI julisti Juanin kirkon tohtoriksi 24. elokuuta 1926. Lempinimi: Doctor mysticus "Mystinen lääkäri". Kuolinsyy: Streptococcus. Asiakassuhde: Mietiskelijät, mystikot ja runoilijat espanjaksi. Viiteryhmä: Karmelvuoren Siunatun Neitsyt Marian Paljasjalkaisten veljien ritarikunta. Varattomien veljien telttarahasto.
xxx/ellauri436.html on line 173: Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, romanized: Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; pronounced [ramɔkriʂno pɔromoɦɔŋʃo] ⓘ; IAST: Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhay, was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the blackface goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as Christianity and Islam. His parable-based teachings advocated the essential unity of religions and proclaimed that world religions are "so many paths to reach one and the same goal". He was regarded by his followers as an avatar (divine incarnation). He later proceeded towards tantric sadhanas, which generally include a set of heterodox practices called vamachara (left-hand path), which utilise as a means of liberation, activities like eating of parched grain, fish and meat along with drinking of wine and sexual intercourse (shagti). Paras paraabeli oli se missä sykofantti shakaali turhaan odotti sonnilta putoavan nannaa kasseista. Opetus: älä nuolaise ennenkö tipahtaa.
xxx/ellauri436.html on line 175: During one period, he worshipped a small metal image of Ramlälä (Rama as a child) in the attitude of a mother. According to Ramakrishna, he could feel the presence of child Rama as a living God in the metal image. Another time he had an intense vision of two young boys merging into his body while he was crossing the river in a boat. In 1927 Romain Rolland discussed with Sigmund Freud the "oceanic feeling" described by Ramakrishna, arguing that his mystical visions, refusal to comply with ritual copulation in Tantra, Madhura Bhava, and criticism of Kamini-Kanchana (women and gold) could reflect homosexuality. An "'oceanic' sentiment" was one which Rolland had also experienced. Max Müller, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sri Aurobindo, and Leo Tolstoy
xxx/ellauri446.html on line 95: Reincarnation is just one of the things where Wiccans stray from the Jesus way. • Reincarnation. Many Wiccans believe that at death, the soul passes into “Summerland,” until the soul is re-birthed again into the physical world. By the way, a Pew Research Poll found that 22% of Christians believe in Reincarnation. • Monism. This means that all is one and one is all; a mystical oneness connects us to nature. • Animism. This is the belief that inanimate objects possess a vital life force. • Pantheism. Similar to animism; it’s the idea that everything is deity. • Panentheism. Deity is within everything and everyone has the deity within them. • Polytheism. Belief that there is more than one god and/or goddess. • Postmodernism. This is the predominate worldview today in which one’s beliefs are determined by personal preference or feelings rather than whether it’s true or not. All views are equally valid because truth is discovered by experience, not knowledge. In this view, there are no absolutes and everything is relative.
xxx/ellauri450.html on line 57: He seems completely unaware, for example, of the works of the great mystics, or of seminal works such as Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy. His characterization of God and religion amounts to caricature. -Frank Wilson, NY Review of Books
xxx/ellauri455.html on line 1033: CH-B-D '(acronym) wisdom-understanding-knowledge', chared 'tremulous' chasid 'pious'. Hasidic Jews are generally understood to be members of sects who follow the particular courts (historical or extant) that follow in the tradition of the Bal Shem Tov and his students, a Jewish mystic who lived in Poland in the 18th century. Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jews are harder to define but I'd broadly call them groups of Jews who take a highly rigid approach to application of Halacha (Jewish law) and also make efforts to reject and resist modernity. If you see someone dressed in the 'black hat' outfit, they're almost certainly Haredi, though not all Haredi dress like this. All Hasidic Jews are Haredi but not all Haredi are Hasidic. Historically, Hasidic Jews were in conflict with "Litvaks" and other non-Hasidic Haredi, but today these divisions are less relevant. Hasidism has also influenced many other Jewish groups, particularly through the influence of Hasidic Jews on Jewish mysticism, and also because of the growth of Chabad (one particular Hasidic sect which is on a mission to increase the observance of all Jews, and which is much more engaged in the modern world than other Hasidic groups). Chabad ei ole juutalaisuuden muoto, vaan se on hasidilaisen lubavitširyhmän sisäinen järjestö. Lubavitš-hasidit työskentelevät ja tukevat Chabad-järjestöä, jolla on maailmanlaajuinen läsnäolo. Chabad on tiedotusjärjestö, joka perustaa kouluja ja synagogia kaikkialle tavoittaakseen uskonnottomat juutalaiset ja kannustaakseen heitä omaksumaan ortodoksisempia käytäntöjä.
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 136: Several early Christian writers and theologians praised virginity using the “spiritual/mystical marriage” imagery or otherwise celebrated virgins’ special union with Christ. Key figures include:
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 152: Gregory of Nyssa — mystical writings linking virginity and spiritual contemplation.
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 157: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (later) — mystical theology that influenced the “mystical marriage” language.
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 159: Hildegard of Bingen and other medieval mystics — used bridal mysticism to describe non-physical union with Christ.
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 161: Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross (later medieval/early modern) — developed detailed mystical “spousal” imagery in contemplative experience.
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 166: It's impossible to know for certain. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) left detailed mystical writings describing intense spiritual raptures and bodily experiences during prayer; some modern readers and scholars have speculated these descriptions could include or resemble sexual sensations, while others interpret them as wholly spiritual, metaphorical, or the language and mystical idiom of her time.
- Autobiography (ch. 29): “One day, when I was in prayer… Our Lord appeared to me… and seemed to pierce my soul with a fiery dart; it penetrated so deeply that I felt myself being consumed, and yet full of sweetness and consolation beyond anything I had experienced before.”
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 223: And this food is called among us Eukaristia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh. For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, "This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My body;" and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, "This is My blood;" and gave it to them alone. Which the wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing to be done. For, that bread and a cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can learn. Please buy the CD to support the cause, view it without ads, and get bonus stuff! Vegaanit älkööt vaivautuko.
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 177: No — calling Yeats "alt-right" is anachronistic and inaccurate. Yeats (1865–1939) was a "complex", often contradictory figure: a nationalist who supported Irish independence and opposed British rule, conservative in temperament, interested in aristocratic order, and sometimes attracted to strong leadership and authoritarian ideas. He expressed elitist, anti-democratic, and occasionally xenophobic sentiments in essays and letters; he also praised some aspects of Mussolini’s order in the 1930s. These positions reflect interwar conservative authoritarianism more than any modern movement label. He did not endorse Nazi ideology; his work and politics predate Hitler’s rise and are rooted in Irish nationalism, mysticism, and a desire for cultural regeneration rather than 20th/21st‑century racial populism. Scholars treat Yeats as a nationalist-conservative with flirtations toward authoritarian solutions, not as a precursor or member of the contemporary "alt‑right."
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 240: Yeats did make at least one antisemitic remark in print and expressed occasional negative comments about Jews in private, but antisemitism was not a central theme of his public politics or poetry. Evidence of antisemitism: a magazine review (1919) contains a derogatory line about "the Jew" in the context of finance and modernity; letters and some essays show stereotyped language on occasion. Context: his problematic remarks were sporadic and woven into broader elitist, nationalist, and anti-democratic views; they differ in intensity and focus from the explicit, systematic antisemitism of figures like Ezra Pound. Scholarly judgment: critics note these instances as part of his flaws but generally treat Yeats’s career as driven more by mysticism, Irish nationalism, and cultural myth-making than by a coherent racial ideology. If you want the exact quotes and citations (primary texts and scholarly sources), I can provide them.
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